User talk:Eatcha

Eatcha is taking a short break and he will be back at Commons probably by the end of May 2020, if urgent send me an e-mail. If any of my bot is malfunctioning you can ask an admin to block it.

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License review

Hi! Your bot approved a review by a non-image-reviewer user. Only admins and license-reviewers are authorized to perform reviews. Maybe the bot should check the tags for latest edits. Example: File:Eminem and Skylar Grey (2018).jpg. - Premeditated (talk) 22:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Premeditated: I reviewed the file again. I think we should have another system to catch files reviewed by non admins/reviewers. Either have the bot revert the review or to add a warning or category. If the bot just leaves the review helper template then I doubt anyone will notice the problem. --MGA73 (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Premeditated, you should ask an admin to block that user. The edit filters are set to warn, they should be changed to disallowed or block. Iteration through edits of older files will take longer time. // Eatcha (talk) 02:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I do agree with your though about disallowing the action, but that is not how it works now. It was only random that I choose to look into the history of the file. This could be a problem, because the bot unintentionally makes a "cover-up" for the non-image-reviewer. - Premeditated (talk) 13:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

File:3 Cycles of minor thirds - BassLessons.tv.webm

Why do you keep on tagging this file over and over again? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf: I removed the {{Licensereview}} because we have an OTRS. Lets see if bot will leave it alone now. --MGA73 (talk) 19:04, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

MGA73 is correct, I forgot about ignoring the OTRS template in main tagging script but the removing script was designed to remove the helper if OTRS found (It generated a loop). Thanks for reporting, FIXED . //Eatcha (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [2][3]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

The Wayback Machine

Sometime ago the Wikimedia Commons community adopted a policy that external links should be archived (see: "Commons:Archive external links"), but so far this hasn't been implemented on all files, I saw that your bot makes edits like these in my e-mail notifications, do you think that it will be possible to archive other external links like for example the Wellcome museum? I would be nice if you could back up all external links on Wikimedia Commons like in the diff above. Is this technically possible for the EatchaBot? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

I just noticed that it only archives files from the Flickr review template, the links that remained unarchived are in the file description, Fæ actually did a trial sample, see here. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Donald Trung I would wait for IABot, it's powered by The Internet Archive and is already running on multiple projects. Internet-Archive has supported many projects and is certainly interested in deploying it for commons but probably cp678 is busy. // Eatcha (talk) 04:14, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

(S)He has been busy for years, and from what I can tell you already have experience with archiving external links on Wikimedia Commons. Plus cp678 when requested did not want to bring what issues they're running into on Wikimedia Commons in the village pump and from what I can tell did not seem to share what code they've already written or what further hurdles they've been facing, despite Fæ already successfully running a test some time ago. The longer we'll wait the more link rot will occur, the more educational files we will lose that can't be verified. It's probably not best to let a single user monopolise something, especially not a paid editor. Or will the Internet Archive see your bot as spam because it's not trusted? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:16, 18 March 2020 (UTC)